This is awful. I don’t think China would have kicked out Apple. Right now the default is iCloud is on. It’s on Apple to change that default to off in China, and only turn it on after a very very clear warning is presented to the user, with periodic reminders. Lives > convenience.https://twitter.com/rondeibert/status/967401214886363136 …
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Mainland but this is a major, horrible, historic turning point.https://twitter.com/blueskysinking/status/967412156667850752 …
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Not at all the same. Not one bit. Also Google didn’t cave then. This is more egregious—what’s at stake is much more than censorship. Much more.https://twitter.com/joelandren/status/967454770830049281 …
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“The basic principle of Chinese privacy law is that the underlying owner of all information about people (and the underlying owner of everything else, really) is the state.” https://www.twitter.com/yonatanzunger/status/967594746167177216 …
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Clay says Apple had no leverage. Probably. I’d say they still could’ve said no—come what may. Maybe the idea that the entire industrial base for tech and other industries could just be outsourced with no consequences for our rights wasn’t all justified.https://twitter.com/cshirky/status/967594193731203072?s=21 …
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Can we view this in the same context as Apple's refusal to implement backdoors on government requests, as was discussed in the big legal case a year ago?
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For a start it will be spread all along the Belt and Road Initiative which is a huge chunk of the world.
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Interesting that Apple is the barometer to your (justified) fears. A lot of other tech giants, and multinational corporation in general, constantly shape-shift to accommodate local norms despite the perceived positive CSR image back "home".
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It's not surprising at all. Apple used to be the one out of the 4-5 giants that really seemed to care about user data an privacy rights. If *they* give up on that, that clearly sets a precedent.
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lol that apple would rather sacrifice the privacy of millionis than even dare lose access to those cheap, human rights violating factories
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@H2CO3_iOS That's nonsense. History books couldn't care less about privacy aspects of expensive gadgets. -
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